Sideshow Bob

My 9 year-old daughter's first superhero comics were the first five books of the collected New Teen Titans, where this cover was published on #1. So to her, this is the cover to the first comic she'll ever remember reading. She loves Perez and draws Titans all the time, trying to imitate his style. I'll get this professionally framed and put up on her wall next to her Perez Wonder Girl sketch and Sienkiewicz Raven.

This is how I have my coffee every morning...just me, Oliver and Morgan. Dishwasher safe! Very happy that Mike agreed to do this two-sided sketch (2015) on one of Starbucks' personalize-able mugs. Baked in oven after drawing causes the special pen ink to adhere permanently to the porcelain. Bob

OMG. This is fantastic. Riffing off of McCay's holy trinity: Little Nemo, Gertie the Dinosaur, and ending with a Rarebit Fiend joke. Brilliant!

Zach did a very detailed pencil first, and then scanned it and blew it up on blue line to be inked. I still haven't worked out what is the "final" piece and what is the prelim; some people would absolutely prefer the pencils (even with Zach's large coffee stain spreading across the middle of the paper) over the inked blueline. In this case, the pencils are so tight, so the goal here was to keep both available so I can just take it off the wall and show people the process work without having an enormous frame with two pieces on the wall. But definitely they needed to stay together in some way. The framer and I opted to float the inked piece, mostly because the inking went all the way to the edge and we both liked to show a little bit of the "sloppy" that makes it the original.

Fun to put these together...

TMNT cover by Zach Howard. Detail on this is stunning...

Got the McCay Rarebit Fiend sunday last night. Goes perfectly thematically with the other Rarebit Fiend I have framed up on the wall. Proud to own two McCays! Paid a little more than expected, but not an incredible amount more.

Oh that Bleeding' Cool review.... "slowly unfolding like a corpse flower". Too true. Too True.

I'm sure those of us who are keeping an eye out saw this announcement about the TV series, but for those of you who didn't!!!! http://www.cbr.com/locke-and-key-hulu/ http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/locke-key-pilot-carlton-cuse-set-at-hulu-995959 http://www.polygon.com/tv/2017/4/21/15382928/locke-and-key-tv-hulu

What about the convention sketches which were personalized and had "Bats" Wishes? I bought this one off eBay in 2013, and sent it off to PSA to at least have the signature authenticated, which they did. The personalization said 1990 which corresponds to his convention circuit appearances. My issue really is that it seems well executed...whereas most of the more "legit" looking Kane sketches look a bit less confident and lack the city background. When he did convention sketches, did he sign these in person, but have someone else draw them ahead of schedule? Or did he draw the whole thing in front of attendees? http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerypiece.asp?piece=1039222 Bob

This was my first buy. Thought it would help my daughters get into comics if I could frame something in their room, and My Little Pony was extremely popular in our house, so seemed like a great idea. And then the whole world of OA opened up from there! A YTLM page I"I'm not your f*%$ng sister") was my first buy for myself on eBay. Bob

Blown away by this recent commission from Sean Murphy. I asked for a Batman and Spectre team-up/face-off, and got a double-page spread with its own stand-alone story vs Talia and Ra's al Ghul emerging from a Lazarus Pit! Link to this and other Batman-Spectre commissions I've had done over the last two years: http://www.comicartfans.com/GalleryPiece.asp?Piece=1379108

Looks phenomenal on the wall. Matthew Roberts' framing and perspective shots are really something to behold. Never an issue where I am not impressed with at least one thing in his art.

Quick update for you...my covers are locked up now that I am have pared down the collection to my favorite five covers. So no more offers contemplated or prices given. As far as I have heard or seen, there are no alternative sources of his original work other than directly from him or his wife. The only other thing I can think of is to try and shake a cover lose from the two or three other people that bought from his Chilean dealer back in the day, and the one interior page from L&K that is on CAF. On the bright side, I thought I'd never see a Calvin & Hobbes strip, but lo and behold, they are starting to show up here and there, so even the tightest held art eventually makes it to market...it just might take a while. Happy hunting!

Comiclink had 3-4 real nice pieces sell a few weeks ago. Considering what those sold for and what a couple pieces sold for on Ebay prices are surely spiking on his work. I really don't see them come up too often either and when they do they sell well. I want to get my hands on a couple of his toned paper commissions he has been doing at con's, except of course he started doing this after ECCC so I missed out. Hopefully next year though. Legends of the Guard cover for sale at the next Heritage auction. Nice! Do you know when it will go up? Already up. Here is the link: Legends of the Guard cover V2#1

Comiclink had 3-4 real nice pieces sell a few weeks ago. Considering what those sold for and what a couple pieces sold for on Ebay prices are surely spiking on his work. I really don't see them come up too often either and when they do they sell well. I want to get my hands on a couple of his toned paper commissions he has been doing at con's, except of course he started doing this after ECCC so I missed out. Hopefully next year though. Legends of the Guard cover for sale at the next Heritage auction.

Batman and Spectre, by Alberto Alburquerque (from Letter 44). Full write-up in CAF.

The overlays are in the additional pictures section on the CAF page. In that same Rat Queens folder is the "shut the fock up, Garry" page with the overlays for each page included. Man, I loved those issues... Other than the page with Betty eating the head of the candy people while tripping (anytime, Court, anytime), these three pages are my favorite pages with Roc as the artist.

My favorite OA from the early issues...who needs words? Rat Queens #4, pg 17 OA Hope to share soon a Roc commission I am currently waiting on.

Two fun pickups: First appearance of The Squid (Detective 497) by Don Newton: And I had never even looked at a color guide before, but the opportunity to pick up an early YTLM issue where I had a page of OA was too good to pass up:

I regret selling this every week, but it was sitting in my closet for too long. Thanks for doing it justice...a spread of this magnitude (its massive) and composition deserved to be framed and showcased. Bob

God Hates Astronauts (hilarious) and the parts in Rachel Rising when someone isn't getting dismembered.

A very nice Newton splash, with Jason Todd in costume meeting Batman in the field for the first time (over a knocked-out Joker). A jewel in my Newton collection!

Well, it took a while, but I finally got my Jerry Bingham Millennium cross-over covers framed up. When they went to printing, some of the covers were slightly resized, so the interlocking trees and branches didn't quite line up, but here you see them in all their glory. The paper is actually really white, but the original overlay is starting to yellow...I opted to leave it as is since I bought these off the newsstand and seeing the complete package is what brings me back.